FAKE NEWS has been around for decades/longer. It’s just now getting press bc the left sees it and imagines it being used against them.
Maybe ‘low information’ voters are to blame. They have been greedily gobbling up all the BS pandered by these ‘Hollywood wannabe’s’ for so long that it’s an established industry by now!!
Walter Durante received numerous Pultzer prizes back in the 1920s for the NYTimes by being a soviet appologist. Famously ignored millions starving in Ukraine along with the purges. A favorite quip was you cannotmake an omelette without breaking a few eggs.